Paul Magliocchetti owned PMA Group, a very well-connected DC lobbying firm that provided questionable inducements to legislators, in exchange for having lucrative federal contracts directed to PMA's client companies. Closed PMA Group in 2009, after federal investigators raided the operation in late 2008.

Magliocchetti pled guilty in 2010 to illegally funneling more than $380,000 to House members controlling the Pentagon's budget, including Congressmen Jim Moran (D-Virginia), Jack Murtha (D-Pennsylvania), and Peter Visclosky (D-Indiana). His son Mark, who worked as a lobbyist at PMA Group, also pled guilty.